Klarinet Archive - Posting 000774.txt from 2004/01

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] What is this?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:55:36 -0500

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:48:01 -0800, Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com> wrote:

>Here is a picture. It appears to be a larger size than what is in the auction.
>
> ><http://www.musicofchina.com/suona.html>http://www.musicofchina.com/suona.html
> >
> >You see that it can be spelled SONA or SUONA. Same thing. The larger
>instrument shown on the page above would be the match. The smaller sona's
>do not have >keys. Both of course are double reeds, making them Asian Oboes.
> >
> >Alan Kiss
> >New Jersey
>
>Gary
>

Is that really what we're seeing in the auction? As others have said,
it's hard to tell because the picture is small, but to my inexperienced
eyes, it looks like that instrument has ordinary Albert-system keywork.
Could this not just be an Albert-system G or Ab clarinet with an
unusually large metal bell?

As they say in medical school, if you hear hoofbeats in the hall, think
horses, not zebras.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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